In 1994, LEAD established an International Research Consortium on ‘Indigenous Agricultural Knowledge for Sustainable Development in Africa and Indonesia’, encompassing LEAD, Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands (Prof.Dr.L.J.Slikkerveer, Coordinator), KENRIK, the National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi, Kenya (Prof.Dr….
In 1993, Prof.Dr. L.J. Slikkerveer was appointed as Chairman of the Pithecanthropus Centennial Foundation, commemorating the centenary of the discovery of ‘Java Man’ (Pithecanthropus erectus) by Eugène Dubois in 1893 in Trinil, Java, Indonesia with an International…
From 1989 onwards, LEAD provided the yearly supervision of more than 20 MA students from Leiden University in their fieldwork training in rural Crete in cooperation with the Spili Health Center and the Department of Social and…
PMS 1989/1990) In December 1988, Prof. Richard E. Leakey, Director of the National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi and Prof. L. Jan Slikkerveer, Director of the LEAD Programme of Leiden University signed a Letter of Intent on…
Major component of the research activities of LEAD staff in ethnobotany includes local peoples’ knowledge, belief and practice of medicinal plants in Indonesia, where traditional herbal medicines are known as jamu. The related medical ethnobotanical research is…